Saturday, May 24, 2008

BBC NEWS | Americas | US car dealer in free gun offer"Customers can choose between a gun or a $250 (£125) gas card, but most so far have chosen the gun. Mr Muller said that every buyer so far "except one guy from Canada and one old guy" chose the gun, rather than the gas card."

How Japan Helped Ease the Rice Crisis"Why does Japan buy rice it doesn't need or want? In order to follow World Trade Organization rules, which date to 1995 and are aimed at opening the country's rice market."

Leadership: Army Fights To Control Its Air Space"The "common picture" problem is a separate thing entirely. Also called data fusion, it has more to do with intelligence collection and analysis on a larger scale. The army is mostly concerned with winning battles, and that's where they see controlling th

Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture"Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency's sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practices that are more appropriate to a content management system." TWITTER WAS BUILT BY THE ODEO TEAM (Podcasting). TO THESE CHAPS EVERYTHNG SEEMS TO BE A CMS PROBLEM

Double, double"Sometimes, we get hung up on catch phrases and jargon that work great when everyone understands what we mean, but fail to bring understanding to outsiders. Yelling louder isn't always the answer. Changing your words might work better."